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Absolutely. I have spent a good amount of time writing and editing professionally. The absolute worst writing happens when someone believes they are owed atten
by SerLava 8y ago
Absolutely.
I have spent a good amount of time writing and editing professionally. The absolute worst writing happens when someone believes they are owed attention simply because they wrote something.
The gall! Maybe people would skim less if so many writers weren't cramming tomes down our throats to serve their own interests.
Even then, skimming is a fundamental reading skill and I simply cannot imagine how ignorant I would be if I never did it.
- LanceH 8y agoI really don't even mind tons of extra words. It just seems to be some new style (last 10 years especially) that deliberately avoids touching on the theme as long as possible. Also hard-jumping away from the theme frequently to tell other stories. It's beyond digression or elaboration IMO.
- newsbinator 8y agoAnd that's when Steven realized what had been causing the illness in tens of thousands of people for over a decade... - - - Two poplar trees stood in the backyard of the house where Steven was born in 1958. Not so much a "back yard" as a "back lawn", one of the trees, nearly 200 years old...
- SerLava 8y agoIs this a real article or just brilliant satire?
- TacticalTable 8y agoSeems to be some excellent satire, Google shows this page as the only result for the phrase
- newsbinator 8y agoI just made it up.
- LanceH 8y agoThis is what I'm talking about.
- dood 8y agoI almost reflexively closed the tab just from reading this comment.
- newsbinator 8y agoSomeone should make a well-being app that forces you to get up from your computer by displaying enraging text snippets in a modal, with no close button, for 15 minutes.
- SerLava 8y agoOh Lord yes! I'm totally with you. That's a whole separate tier of Hell. I think they're either chasing gamified time-on page metrics, or are just deeply conceited. Whenever that happens to me I consider myself pranked by the writer.